Hot sauce. Great cause. Terrible mojo.

[August_West]

I find it harder to learn secrets of true Asian cooking over most other cuisines

Very true.

And Asian food is my favorite. Indian, thai, Korean, vietnamese......

I can knock off anything in the kitchen. Better than restaraunts. But I cant make a a next level Pho, (and lord knows Ive tried), or a great cocunut curry, or a Madras, or a Biryiani.


Repated attempts and I cant do better than even an average place around me.


Whereas everything else I can run circles around the best restaraunts.


Asian cooking (in all its many different forms) eludes me.

 

[Deepster]

Very true.

And Asian food is my favorite. Indian, thai, Korean, vietnamese......

I can knock off anything in the kitchen. Better than restaraunts. But I cant make a a next level Pho, (and lord knows Ive tried), or a great cocunut curry, or a Madras, or a Biryiani.


Repated attempts and I cant do better than even an average place around me.


Whereas everything else I can run circles around the best restaraunts.


Asian cooking (in all its many different forms) eludes me.

A while back, I won an in-home Indian food cooking lesson in an auction. Went to a woman's house for an entire afternoon and made 5 dishes, got all the leftovers, a ton of spices and it was just super cool and informative and personal.

For my two cents, the hook comes in the manipulation and combination of spices. For one dish, she'd crush cumin and coriander seeds and dry rub the meat. The next one she'd fry the cumin and coriander in oil before adding in other ingredients. How and when and where she'd add the same things blew my mind.